How to give your music analogue-style warmth

Bias

Step 3: Bias is a hangover from the days of tape, where a pure sine wave was added to the signal to ensure the distortion didn’t get out of control. Here, you can use it to fine-tune the harmonics of your warmth. Think of it as an exciter that can either make things duller (at lower values) or brighter (at higher ones). Here, we’ve pushed it hard to make our guitar very bright.